European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday july 14,1994 pc world the stars and stripes Page 11nato partnership grows to 22 with Uzbekistan from the associated press Brussels Belgium a Uzbekistan on wednesday signed a partnership far peace Accord with nato the 22nd country to opt for a military and political cooperation agreement with the Western Alliance. The framework agreement was signed by Sai Mukhtar said Asimov the foreign minister of Uzbekistan at a 30-minute meeting with the 16 nato ambassadors at the Alliance Headquarters. It enables Uzbekistan to develop closer cooperative relations that May include exchanges of military information exchanged pooling of forces in joint exercises or humanitarian operations and crisis management consultations. To Date 19 of natos former Gold War allies a plus Sweden and Finland a have signed a. Partnership Accord. The partnership program was unveiled at a january nato Summit meeting in Brussels and opens the door to future nato membership for some East european killed in Germany Berlin a police marksmen put an end wednesday to the three Day return to nature of an 32-Inch pet Alligator that had kept hundreds of bathers on the Beach. A Sammy a As the Many toothed reptile was known got Loose sunday when his owner Jorg Zars took him in a bag on an expedition to a Lake in Dormagen a City near Dusseldorf on the Rhine River. Popular beaches on the Lake were closed while scores of people tried to Corner Sammy in nets or catch him with a shark Hook baited with beef. The 21-year-old Zars pleaded in vain that the reptile was so harmless that Sammy had even shared his bed. Authorities decided to try to shoot the reptile and were successful about 1 . Wednesday after using searchlights that reflected off Sammy a big eyes and gave away his location said Dormagen City spokesman Guido Schenk. France to Start withdrawal of troops policing Rwanda Paris apr France will withdraw 300 troops from Rwanda by the end of july the first step in the gradual pullout of the 2,500-Strong intervention Force that reached full strength Only last week. Under pressure from rebels scenting Victory in the rwandan civil War defense minister Francois Leotard said tuesday in a television interview that the withdrawal would come soon. ,. A we will have a withdrawal that will begin before july 31, along the lines of about 300 soldiers a Leotard said in an interview with France-2 television. African troops will take up the Slack Leotard said without specifying How Many or from which country. The French forces joined by about 200 troops from Senegal have carved out a Security zone in Southwest pm Rwanda to protect people endangered in three months of ethnic massacres and War. They include hundreds of thousands of refugees from the majority Hutu tribe fleeing the rapidly advancing rwandan patriotic front rebels dominated by the minority Tutsi tribe. The ref wary of Frances former close relations with Rwanda a government has been stepping up demands for the troops to leave before a two month . Protection mandate expires aug. 21. Hundreds of thousands of Tutsi and moderate huts were massacred by government soldiers and militias following the death of Juvenal Hab Sarimana Rwanda a Hutu president in a suspicious plane crash april 6. Earlier tuesday Leotard told the National Assembly that the government a has neither the will nor desire to stay. He could not say however whether the pullout would be completed by aug. 21, when France Hopes to turn Over its Mission to a . Force that is far from ready. A we cannot leave in a precipitate Way that would accentuate the problems faced by the rwandan people a Leotard said. Catania Sicily apr one of Italy a leading industrialists was arrested tuesday along with at least 35 other suspects investigated for ties Between organized crime and business. At least 36 of 45 suspects named in warrants were arrested in overnight raids police said. Many were suspected of carrying out murders and other crimes on the orders of Benedetto a unit to Santa Paola a longtime fugitive captured last year the italian news Agency Ansa said. Among those taken into custody was Gaetano Graci 67, a sicilian financier whose Industrial interests have included clothing construction and agriculture. Rai state television said investigators suspected Graci helped finance some of Santapaola a activities in return for much of tuesdays Case grew out of testimony by mafia turncoat Maurizio Avola reputedly one of the top hit men for the mob in the Catania area. A sicilian Magazine recently reported that Avola told investigators that Graci was behind the 1984 killing of a sicilian journalist who worked for a newspaper the industrialist once controlled Ansa said. Graci was also once questioned about a secret trip to Sicily by fugitive banker Michele Sindona the Magazine said. Sindona was later caught and died in March 1986 after drinking a cyanide laced cup of Coffee in a prison where he was serving time for Bank fraud. In Pamplona Spain a no one was gored and Only four people were treated in hospitals for bumps and bruises in the famed running of the bulls wednesday a relatively Light injury toll for Pamplona a san Fermin festival. The four injuries brought to 51 the total number of people sent to emergency wards this year All of them gored banged up or stepped on As they dashed with a Herd of vicious fighting bulls through the narrow streets of this north1 Ern town. 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To Algeria after i i Lings of 2 Algiers Algeria a a yugoslav firm is pulling out of Algeria after two employees were slain and France and Italy Are planning a joint evacuation of their nationals if islamic extremist attacks increase against foreigners. Italy announced that it was reducing its diplomatic staff and beefing up embassy Security after a gun Battle near the embassy left two police officers and two gunmen dead tuesday. The shootout came amid a new wave of killings of foreigners by islamic militants seven italian sailors had their throats Cut last week and seven East europeans were gunned Down in attacks monday. Cedomir Kovacevic head of the yugoslav water engineering firm hide Othni a announced the withdrawal of his workers after two were killed and one wounded when gunmen sprayed a restaurant with bullets monday. Assets Worth $5 million to $6 million will be left in the North african country and All ventures abandoned Kovacevic was reported As saying tuesday by Yugoslavia a Tan Jug news Agency. Serbia and Montenegro Are the Only republics remaining in Yugoslavia. Italian foreign minister Antonio Martino announced the coordinated plan after meeting French counterpart Alain Juppe in Paris of tuesday the militants Are trying to weaken the regime by driving away foreign business. They have slain 51 foreigners since september. About 4,000 people have been killed in political violence since january 1992, military cancelled parliamentary elections hat the fundamentalist islamic salvation front was virtually certain to win. A a some 80,000 foreigners resided in Algeria a year ago including 76,000 French 750 italians and 300 americans. France is algerians former colonial ruler. 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